Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto!

A/N: Hey everyone I decided to add another story. Warning: Characters might be OOC. I am revising my other story 'bonds' and should have it up in the next week or so. Thank you for reading and helping me improve my stories. Hope you enjoy this one.


Chapter One: Back to the Track

I put my car in park and sat there staring at my house for a minute. Sighing I climbed out locking the door behind me. Turning I made my way up the walkway to my porch. As I turned the key in the door I pushed it open to reveal silence. Making my way into the kitchen I put my bag on the island. Pulling an apple from the bowl in front of me I sat and munched on it. The front door opened and the click of my mother's high heels made there way into where I sat. She stood staring at me with worry in her eyes; silence ensued until she broke it by speaking.

"Your father called me today at work:" She offered a small smile

"What did he want?" I asked looking down at my half eaten apple.

"He misses you."

"Miss him too."

"He wants you to go stay with him for the summer."

"Mom I haven't been to the track since I was fourteen."

"Honey we think it might be good for you. He misses you and hasn't seen you in over four years can you give him a chance." She pleaded.

"Mom, ugh fine I'll give him a chance on one condition."

"Anything hun."

"Im driving myself there."

"That's it and you'll go?"

"Yes, if I get to drive in my car on my own then I will go."

"Deal, you might want to go pack it's a six hour drive so you'll have to leave tomorrow morning." She clapped turning out of the room she left me with nothing but my apple and thoughts.

Sighing I finished my apple and got up to head to my room. I began the climb up the stairs at a very sluggish pace. Entering my room I pulled out my red suit case from under my bed. Sitting inside my closest I packed my clothes which consisted of mostly black, red, gray and white. I climbed up to grab my jeans off the top shelf and a photo album crashed to my feet as I pulled them down. Sitting with it in my lap I browsed through it. It had pictures of me behind the wheel of my old stock car, holding trophies, and hugging my parents as I won another trophy. The last page in the album was a newspaper article. Reading the first line tears started to well up, tossing it aside I zipped up my bag and went to shower. After showering I climbed up into bed and layed there thinking about that last day at the track. Closing my eyes I fell into a restless sleep. Tomorrow I was headed to the one place I never wanted to go back to, but I missed my father so I was going to suck up my feelings and go.


"Boss seems really happy today." Naruto laughed opening the hood of Ino's car.

"His daughter is coming to stay for the summer, remember he told us last night." Ino laughed pulling on her purple mechanic jumpsuit.

"Oh yea." He grinned.

"Idiot." Sasuke mumbled.

"What you saying you cold hearted asshole." Naruto yelled.

"Boys not today. We have to ready the cars for the big race tomorrow." Hinata growled.

"Hn." Sasuke replied.

Half-hour into work they were sitting around laughing and working on the cars when they heard it. Turning toward the garage entrance they saw a black Nissan with dark tinted windows pull up in front of the garage door and a girl stepped out of the car. She stood at five feet two inches. She had the bosses green eyes and pink hair flowing down her back. She wore a black tank top over black jeans, on her feet were red converse to match her red leather jacket. She walked into the garage door and looked at them.

"Um… im looking for my father is he around?" She asked looking around.

"Oh um hold on one second I will go grab him." Ino smiled.

She came in and looked around. The others watched as she examined Ino's stock car. Ino returned saying that he would be in momentarily. The girls thanked her and sat on a stool next to Ino's workbench, and watched them work. Finally a tall man with long black hair came in. His green eyes lit up at they landed on the girl. Smiling he swooped her up into a bear hug with his muscled arms.

"Oh honey when your mother called and said you had agreed to stay for the summer I was beyond happy." He laughed pulling back so he could look at her.

"Nice to see you to dad." She said smiling a weak smile.

"I haven't seen you in four years!" He said hugging her again. "Why haven't you visited sooner."

"Dad please don't start you know why." She frowned.

"Okay but later we are going to talk about it. Anyway troops this is my daughter Sakura, Sakura this is my racing crew. My racers Sasuke, Ino and Hinata, and the pit crew is Shika, Neji, Tenten and Naruto." He said introducing her.

"It's nice to have you here." Ino laughed.

"Thanks, um I like you car." She said gesturing to the car behind Ino.

"oh yeah I kick ass in it." She grinned.

"I bet."

"So you wanna get some lunch with me and the girls?" Ino offered.

"Yeah come to lunch with us." Tenten agreed.

"Sure." She smiled.

"YAY, okay boys were leaving. See you in an hour." Ino laughed.

"Oh Sakura, your old trophies there in a box in my office if you want to take them when you get back." Boss yelled after her.

"Okay." She replied as a look of hurt crossed her face only to disappear behind the door of Ino's white Mitsubishi.

"Well boys enjoy your lunch." Boss turned and left.

"So what do you think of her?" Naruto asked the guys.

"Seems cool. Never seen boss act like that. I swear he was crying." Shika laughed.

"She's interesting." Sasuke shrugged.

"From what it sounded like she use to race." Neji added.

"I wonder if she was any good?" Naruto asked.

"Maybe." Shika replied.

"We should find out?" Naruto grinned.

"How?" Neji asked "We cant just walk up and asked her, she kind of seemed hurt about the memories."

"Boss left so lets go look in the box and see." Naruto said heading into the office.

The others followed him. A medium box sat on the bosses desk and they all approached it. Looking at the others Naruto opened the box and pulled out some trophies. The box was filled with 1st place trophies and pictures. Looking at them the boys began to wonder what it would be like to get her behind the wheel.

"Why do you think she stopped?" Shika wondered.

"She can tell you that when she is ready." A voice said behind them.

"Geesh boss way to give me a heart attack." Naruto cried.

"Sorry, but you are in my office without permission." He laughed.

"Sorry, just was curious. Are all these hers?" Neji asked holding up a trophy.

"Yeah, she was one of the best." He said looking down.

"Are you serious there is like fifteen first place trophies in here." Naruto gaped.

"It was her favorite thing in the whole world, she was good, not just good she was great. Anyway I knew you would come in here. The whole reason she is here is because me and her mother want to get her behind the wheel again and we are leaving it to you and the girls." He smiled.

"Why us?" Sasuke asked.

"Because you're the best racers I have seen and I have a feeling you all will become really close." Boss said while leaving.

A car door shut in the distance warning them that the girls were back from there lunch break. Putting the box back into ordered they returned to the garage and met up with the girls. Sakura went inside to grab the box from the desk and put it in her car. Waving goodbye she got it and drove off to the bosses house. As soon as her car was gone out of sight the boys filled the girls in on what happened when they were gone. Grinning the girls agreed to help and told them that at lunch Sakura had told them that she stopped racing because of race that didn't turn out like she wanted it to.

"Wait so does that mean she stopped because she lost one race." Shika asked.

"We don't know. Maybe." Ino said.

"Well tomorrow we have a big race. Lets sleep on it then come up with a plan." Neji said.

Saying goodbyes they all parted ways and went to there homes to sleep. With Sakura she was at her fathers house in the garage. The car was under the black tarp and she sat there staring at it. Putting a hand on it she sighed and went upstairs to bed. Little did she know that her dad had seen the whole thing and knew by the end of the summer she was going to be back behind that wheel. Smiling to himself he headed off to bed thinking to himself 'this summer is going to be really interesting'